Case File The Garden State's exclusive remedy rule along with policy language prevented a contractor from enforcing a duty to defend against its insurer. Simply Research subscribers have access to the full text of the […]

What Do You Think? Phoenix, AZ (WorkersCompensation.com) -- In Arizona, when an ALJ denies a claimant’s request to reopen a workers’ compensation case, the claimant has 90 days to challenge that decision. One case illustrates […]

What Do You Think? Boothwyn, PA (WorkersCompensation.com) – Comments and texts from supervisors can sometimes support an employee’s claim of retaliation. But as a case involving a Walmart store manager shows, the employee still needs to […]

What Do You Think? Schenectady, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) -- A few key pieces of evidence usually work together to show whether an employee was or was not misrepresenting his injuries to obtain workers’ compensation benefits. In […]

Stuart, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) -- It's that time of year again where the news desk looks back on what we learned that we might be able to take forward for a better new year. Or maybe […]

What Do You Think? Sioux Falls, SD (WorkersCompensation.com) -- The steps a company takes to either fuel or put the brakes on an employee’s workers’ compensation retaliation claim tend to repeat themselves from case to […]

What Do You Think? Ravenswood, WV (WorkersCompensation.com) -- To obtain workers’ compensation benefits, an employee generally has to show, among other things, that her injury was caused by her work activities. A case involving a […]

Case File While a worker injured on the job didn't present evidence regarding whether Washington, D.C.'s exclusive remedy rules should apply, an appeals court found that the lower court was too hasty in deciding that […]